New Jersey marijuana dispensary say Facebook hasunfairly bannedtheir line pages . The fight highlights how discrepant Facebook ’s policy towards prescription drug is .
NJ.comreported on the shutdown :
Officials fromBreakwater Wellness and Treatment Center in CranburyandCompassionate Sciences Alternative Treatment Center in Bellmawrsaid their home pageboy were shut down Tuesday . When they tried to apply their home base page , they found an electronic message that articulate : “ We take away any advancement or encouragement of drug usance . ”
“ Your page is presently not seeable on Facebook . It looks like content on your page does not accompany the Facebook Community Terms and Standards . ”
When NJ Advance Media contacted Facebook , the troupe wane to comment , alternatively referring the media to its Community Standards page . I ’ve also contacted Facebook about this policy , so I ’ll update if it gives me a dissimilar answer .
Facebook ’s Community Standards pageboy does ban selling drugs without authority . But it does not banish the pages of authorised drug vendor , so mention the dispensaries to this paragraph is unusual , as the vendors are effectual in New Jersey :
We prohibit any effort by unauthorized dealers to purchase , sell , or patronage prescription drug drugs , marijuana , or firearm . If you post an offer to buy or sell alcohol , tobacco , or grownup products , we expect you to follow with all applicable laws and carefully reckon the audience for that content . We do not reserve you to use Facebook ’s defrayment shaft to betray or purchase regulated goods on our program .
Searching “ marijuana dispensary ” on Facebook pulls up plenty of other legal aesculapian marijuana dispensary business pages . This was not a sweeping policy variety where Facebook banished groups en masse .
If Facebook is categorize medical marijuana dispensaries as “ unauthorized ” because marijuana sales are illegal under federal jurisprudence , why would n’t it be far more aggressive at taking varlet down ? Why only target a tiny subsection ? If that ’s the stance , every exclusive dispensary page in the US would rape the Community Standards .
[ NJ.com ]
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